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LEAD Tennessee’s Change Management Summit
PARTNER SPOTLIGHT
Dr. Rick Brandt, TalentQuest Consulting Services
In April 2010, TalentQuest began working with the State of Tennessee to support its LEAD Tennessee initiative, a new leadership development program designed to address the challenges of the new millennium. In addition to conducting before- and- after 360 assessments on the program’s participants, we developed content for the program and facilitated much of it. At the year-long program’s core was six day-long summits, each of which was focused on a different leadership topic. Having successfully utilized ExperiencePoint’s ExperienceChange simulation tool with several other clients, I was eager to find a way to incorporate it into the LEAD Tennessee program.
Experiencing Design Thinker: Experience Innovation
FABULOUS FACILITATORS
Drew Marshall, Primed Associates, LLC
Having run the Design Thinker: Experience Innovation simulation a number of times I continue to be both amazed and delighted by the power of design thinking in action in transforming skeptical minds. Coming from a background where rational, left-brain thinking was the order of the day, and the way in which that often hampered creativity, I have witnessed how the framework for innovation revealed through the simulation challenges people to think differently about their own approaches.
Design Thinker in Leadership Development
FABULOUS FACILITATORS
Heather Wray-Isquierdo, MDA Leadership Consulting
I’ve recently had the pleasure of facilitating three consecutive Design Thinker sessions at a Fortune 500 company. The simulation was designed into the kick-off event for several committees comprised of cross-functional general managers and function leaders, tasked with creating strategies to both grow the business organically as well as create efficiencies to improve margin. The Design Thinker experience was reported by participants as one of the most valuable aspects of the two day leadership development event.
Design Thinker wins Gold at Edison Awards!
We’re very excited to share that ExperiencePoint’s Design Thinker, a simulation that builds innovation skills to solve business challenges, received the Gold Award for Best New Product at the 2011 Edison Awards Gala held in New York City on April 5, 2011. Design Thinker was honored in the Living, Working & Learning Environments category.
Lakeview Simulation Teaches Change Leadership in Health Care
Toronto, Ontario – ExperiencePoint announced today the launch of ExperienceChange Lakeview (“Lakeview”), a change leadership simulation for health care developed in partnership with the Collaborative for Health Sector Strategy at the University of Toronto.
“Present economic conditions challenge all organizations to do more and more with less and less,” says ExperiencePoint co-founder James Chisholm. “Lakeview is timely as it helps leaders to manage the change to a lean-focused organization.”
